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- Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition
by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding series 03 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur In How to Be Perfect
- Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations The second and third books in this series are published; I seem to often start series and have to wait
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition
to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery series Emma Makepeace returns in the second book in the series, The Traitor, and when one thing leads to another Raybourn I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series In this fourth book of the series, Veronica is lured by the promise of an elusive butterfly and an invitation
- Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen
Maine, the town has drawn multiple former intelligence agents (they make up the "martini club" in the series This was a great setup for a series. I'd like to read more Gerritsen novels. Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition
Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Murderbot series Schwab's return to the world of the Shades of Magic series (Kell! Delilah Bard! new characters!) System Collapse, we catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot, who in this seventh book in the series The first two books in the Shades of Magic series are A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows
- Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder mystery genre as a mathematician, exploring every The stories aren't connected by characters or settings, and they vary in their setups. The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/27/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the second in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrian series, Iron Flame 01 Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros I wanted to love Fourth Wing, the first in this series, But I do love a dragon book, and so far the second in the series offers more page time for the talking
- Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
It requires an engagement of every sense.... I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year This series of books is so beautiful and odd and captivating, I just love giving them as gifts. 02 Cloud spent a year traveling the United States in search of the greatest golf experience available, playing every
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the second in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Hell Bent, in for adults whose story line is not connected to the Grishaverse, is the first in Bardugo's Alex Stern series I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series. and the King of Crows duology discussed here, which is expected to be the end of the interconnected series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition
03 Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery series: Truly Devious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition
Rowling (Robert Galbraith is her pen name for the Cormoran Strike series). I'm reading the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, in which a dismembered body and Freemason
- Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Blackwater Falls is the first in a planned series. Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series (The Unquiet Dead, The She is also the author of The Khorasan Archives fantasy series (The Bloodprint is the first book in the series).
- Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie , cruel power were disturbing, and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town created an eerie There's another book planned for this series; I hope the tides of power have turned in Bethel in book
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series In the newest doorstop of a book in the series, Cormoran Strike is cursorily on a health kick, he and
- Review of Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
largely stay in drunken, sunburned fogs of excess and denial, and they do it all against a luxurious, eerie solid suspense read with magnetic twists and turns--as well as the Hex Hall, Rebel Belle, and Royals series
- Review of You Are Here by David Nicholls
But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there I adored every moment I spent with these characters, particularly while witnessing their hesitancy blooming
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition
Grohl credits his varied and numerous musical influences and it feels reminiscent of his conversations in the documentary series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. 03 This Shining Life by Harriet Kline Young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition
Yellowstone National Park, The Ranger; and I'm listening to the second in an irresistible historical fiction series Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery series I'm listening to the audiobook of the second in Thomas's Lady Sherlock series, in which Charlotte Holmes
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn In the third installment of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
sent to live with relatives for a hot summer; I'm reading the first of Alex White's Starmetal Symphony series from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White In the first book in Alex White's space opera series I really enjoyed Alex White's Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in the Salvagers series That first book in the space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/19/24 Edition
inhabitants, The Whalebone Theatre; and I'm listening to the first in Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series audiobook. 03 Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs begins Winspear's series
- Review of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
person in almost three hundred years to remember her after she walks out the door, the next day, and every She has also written the Villains series (two titles in that one so far) and the Shades of Magic series
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/21 Edition
Three days later, she was recovered in a miraculous series of events that ended up with her removal from trilogy, Beneath the Keep, which is when I realized I'd never read this third and final book in the series timelines are running through The Fate of the Tearling: that of the current Tearling, with its horrifically varied
- Review of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Ashley Poston is also the author of Geekerella and the Once Upon a Con series, the Heart of Iron Series , and the Radio Hearts series.
- Review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
I was hooked on the varied settings and intrigue by both the premise and the story's inspiration.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
the length of their lives, The Measure; and I'm reading the first in Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series But Purity, Maine, has drawn multiple former intelligence agents (the "martini club" in the series title
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/12/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series, A Tempest Tempest of Tea: Blood and Tea #1 by Hafsah Faizal In the first book of Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series
- Review of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years, and that she has some eerie well-meaning and ineffectual passersby; and dreams of darkness, belonging, and taking up the mantle of an eerie
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series about a training Wing (Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware until she arrives that the
- Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
I'm getting ready to begin reading the third installment in Naomi Novik's Scholomance series and I realized In Spinning Silver, Miryem comes from a family of moneylenders who are on the verge of being unable to Check out my reviews of Lessons One and Two in the Scholomance series, A Deadly Education and The Last
- Review of Definitely Better Now by Ava Robinson
It feels like every messy part of her life is about to converge in a destructive collision.
- Review of The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young
In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong young Bryn fights for her own I originally saw this listed as the third book in Adrienne Young's Fable series, but I don’t see that here for my review of Adrienne Young's Fable, and click here for my review of the second book in the series Young is also the author of Sky in the Deep and The Girl the Sea Gave back, both in the Sky and Sea series
- Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones
something to the effect of "Did all of these clothes that are lying around just walk themselves into every This is the first in a series. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/29/24 Edition
makes enemies of multiple fellow contestants, she struggles with the staged and manipulated nature of every But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there
- Review of The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
I read the first in that series, The Magicians , for but me it was short on magic and fantastical elements
- Review of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
My friend Amy suggested that I read this one, and Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange
- Review of Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Zoey's beloved mother died, Zoey's father and stepmother prioritized her stepsiblings emotionally and in every reclusive, mysterious local author whose magical story or personal generosity seems to have affected every
- Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother.
- Review of None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
books that center around a podcast are Listen for the Lie and also the Good Girl's Guide to Murder series
- Review of Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
The second book in this series is Dating and Dragons .
- Review of Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
When a series of vindictive, one-star reviews threaten their business, they must figure out who has it
- Review of Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
beloved story, but for me the sweetness was cloying; the tale slowed to a snail's pace as Allen explored every
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet Women; I'm reading Less Is Lost, the second in Andrew Sean Greer's series Then a series of unusual events lead to Charlotte's assuming the identity of a made-up detective, Sherlock
- Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
are at the center of women's sexuality; and to explain how women's experiences of sexuality are as varied Nagoski's writing is accessible and her examples come from years of experience with clients and their varied
- Review of The Colony by Annika Norlin
Norlin draws the reader into the eerie heart of a small group living sequestered in the Swedish forest
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/27/25 Edition
I read the first in that series, The Magicians , for but me it was short on magic and fantastical elements
- Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
(Sibley's What It's Like to Be a Bird; 2020's Flight Lines by Andrew Darby; and Beletsky's Bird Songs
- Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Which is just to say, be careful when choosing what you’re proud of—because the world has every intention
- Review of Bride by Ali Hazelwood
, check out Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series, which includes Soulless and Changeless.

















































